There are times when I tease my Conservative friends about being obsessed by sex, especially gay sex. I suppose I shouldn't but wow, they do seem to bring it up a lot, and know more about it than one would think, and of course the recent spat of closeted Republican lawmakers doesn't' hurt in the tragic humor department. So, Conservatives, fearing that Wikipedia is too Godless and Liberal created some time back their own Conservative, Christian version. Conservapedia. So what is it that Christian Conservatives are so deeply concerned about and have to study on their own website? Here is the answer from THEIR OWN statistics page.
User statistics
There are 15,539 registered users, of which 27 (or 0.17%) are Administrators.
Most viewed pages
1. Main Page [1,929,967]
2. Homosexuality [1,623,016]
3. Homosexuality and Hepatitis [517,960]
4. Homosexuality and Promiscuity [422,012]
5. Homosexuality and Parasites [414,667]
6. Gay Bowel Syndrome [400,441]
7. Homosexual Couples and Domestic Violence [373,858]
8. Homosexuality and Gonorrhea [332,050]
9. Homosexuality and Anal Cancer [294,256]
10. Homosexuality and Mental Health [293,394]
I ask again, What is it with Conservatives? Good grief, talk about obsessed!
(Here's that link again: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~leon/stats/wikicharts/?wiki=enwiki.
I guess this blog doesn't accept HTML, so I hope it will take the link as is.)
Posted by: bls | November 26, 2007 at 07:07 PM
Just for purposes of comparison, here's a list of the recent most-viewed pages at English Wikipedia.
Here are the top 10 non-Wikipedia-related pages:
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2. Naruto
3. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
4. United States
5. Deaths in 2007
6. Heroes (TV series)
7. Transformers (film)
8. Halo 3
9. Harry Potter
10. Vanessa Anne Hudgens
Yep. Those Godless liberals sure have some unsavory reading habits as compared to Conservapedia readesr, don't they?
Posted by: bls | November 26, 2007 at 07:06 PM
Hi there Bellwether.
Lets see. I got this information from their website.
I don't know that Liberals and Moderates don't visit, but knowing something about those groups, I would find it unusual for them to do so.
There are all sorts of websites to discover various issues with that topic, not just Conservapedia. I hardly think they are the only source.
Yes I get conservative emails and spam by the droves and generally whatever breathless claim made in it is easily disproved via snopes.com
Are u suggesting that Conservapedia has been sneak-attacked by Liberals? If so, one would think they would edit their statistics page.
I just find it odd that Conservatives continue to fixate on sexual issues.
Posted by: Monk-in-Training | November 24, 2007 at 10:54 PM
And how did you find out about this?
Homosexuality is a hot button issue. It doesn't surprise me that it attracts alot of attention. How do you know that it's just conservatives that visit conservapedia? What about those who want to find the problems with homosexuality? Have you not received conservative spam email? I have. Word gets around. It's hard to determine intent with the numbers alone.
Posted by: Baptist Bellwether | November 23, 2007 at 11:06 PM
Thanks for posting these. Very telling....
Posted by: bls | November 23, 2007 at 09:45 AM